Self-Injury Support Group

Whether you or someone you know or love struggles with self-injury, this is the community to discuss your experience, find support, meet others going through the same, and get advice on how to stop. Working together, we can help find alternative coping skills to reduce the urge to self-harm.

my best friend isnt helping

my best friend seems to be one of my main triggers, everything she says and does makes me want to cut. I love her, shes the best friend i've ever had, but shes just making me worse as they days go on. what should i do, live with it? break up with her? which i really dont want to do. i cant tell her shes triggering me, because she doesnt know i cut, so what should i do?

i dont know, everything she says just triggers me. shes always saying oo i need to loose weight, which makes me feel bad about my weight, and she says stuff about why people are depressed and self harm and that she doesnt undertand it and she thinks its stupid, and that triggers me, and a girl in my class used to self harm, and my best friend was contantly going on about how there was nothign wrong with this girls life, when, how does she know? i knew no better then, but no i know that people hide stuff, cos i do, and maybe there is more going on in her life than she makes out. EVERYTHIGN SHE DOES TRIGGERS ME

Aw, I'm sorry. Some people can be very insensitive. First, it isn't right for someone to criticize your weight. Your weight is YOUR business and your doctor's business, no one else's. When it comes to depression and self-injury, she can't read people's minds and know their lives, what they have been through. She sounds very judgmental. Now, if her critical attitude is actually triggering you and making you feel bad about yourself, I think that you should tell her so. I know that is really really hard, to confront a person and tell them that their behavior is hurting you, but if you are considering breaking up with her, shouldn't you have the chance to express what is bothering you, and by doing that, you give her the chance to apologize and stop treating you like this. If she refuses to change and acknowledge that her behavior is hurtful then I think you should break off that friendship. A friend that cares does not want to hurt you, that's the bottom line. By the way, don't let her make you believe that you that you are overly sensitive because this would hurt anyone, it would definitely hurt me. I only say this because it is the kind of thing that a lot of people say to justify their hurtful behavior.

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